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[NitroNic]

welcome back mang! you talking about your teen years makes me wonder how old you are?!...

I graduated high school in 2003. I just hit the middle of my 20s this year.

Had a few grey hairs for 2 or 3 years though!

[marquisman]

oh, im almost at that mid 20s point too...i guess i can relate lol

[MrMarquis]

I graduated high school in 2003. I just hit the middle of my 20s this year.

Had a few grey hairs for 2 or 3 years though!

Hell, you talk as if you're old. My older brother is the same age as you.

[Brandon]

Welcome back!

[sly]

mid 20s is old... but when you reach your 30s... not so much

[NitroNic]

Hell, you talk as if you're old.

I'm starting to feel and act that way too. I catch myself saying stuff like, "Damn teenagers!" when I was one myself less than 6 years ago.

Other things that contribute to me feeling old are:

• I got married
• I bought a house (well... I made a down payment on a house and make my second mortgage payment tomorrow)
• I graduated college after 6 years
• I started a fun but challenging and occasionally exhausting career working for an IOC
• I have a couple of retirement accounts <--- That one SCREAMS "old"!
• I've gained 20 to 25 pounds in the last year, which I attribute mostly to laziness but also the job and marriage.

However, the following things help me feel still young:

• I have no kids or grandkids
• I still ride my Heelys every now and then
• I can still walk without a cain or walker
• I don't take any presciption medication and rarely take anything other than the occasional aspirin
• I watch SouthPark, Family Guy, and MythBusters quite frequently.
• giggedy giggedy goo!

So I guess it all kind of averages out to zero... so I'm just kind of "meh."

[sly]

Mythbusters is the bomb!


...
oh wait

[MrMarquis]

I'm starting to feel and act that way too. I catch myself saying stuff like, "Damn teenagers!" when I was one myself less than 6 years ago.

Other things that contribute to me feeling old are:

• I got married
• I bought a house (well... I made a down payment on a house and make my second mortgage payment tomorrow)
• I graduated college after 6 years
• I started a fun but challenging and occasionally exhausting career working for an IOC
• I have a couple of retirement accounts <--- That one SCREAMS "old"!
• I've gained 20 to 25 pounds in the last year, which I attribute mostly to laziness but also the job and marriage.

Well, getting married and buying a house, graduating and starting a career are things you do when you're young. Just wait until you're looking at your twentieth anniversary or paying of your mortgage. THEN you'll be old. :smirk:

And I'm only 21 and have personalized railroad retirement and myself a 401K. Not to mention I started my career at 18 and sold away my youth. But I still feel young, just gotta find the time to enjoy it.

RIDE THEM HEELYS MORE!

[NitroNic]

Well, getting married and buying a house, graduating and starting a career are things you do when you're young. Just wait until you're looking at your twentieth anniversary or paying of your mortgage. THEN you'll be old. :smirk:

And I'm only 21 and have personalized railroad retirement and myself a 401K. Not to mention I started my career at 18 and sold away my youth. But I still feel young, just gotta find the time to enjoy it.

RIDE THEM HEELYS MORE!

I brought the Heelys with me to Dallas this weekend B-)

What railroad do you work for?

[hemihotrod402]

I graduated high school in 2003. I just hit the middle of my 20s this year.

Had a few grey hairs for 2 or 3 years though!

really? I was in 5th grade in 2003
Welcome back!

[sly]

heh... you guys make me feel old, and I'm not. I graduated HS in '96. Would have been sooner if the school would have let me skip a grade here and there. I was one of those guys the teachers hated because I would sleep through their classes and get at least B's.

College was different... I actually had to take about 50 pages of notes (for the whole time actually. knew lots of folks that would take like 50 pages of notes a day) and stay awake in most of my classes to graduate Magna with a 3.84 GPA (4 point system of course). Made up for my slacking in HS but due to that slacking... I now have 2 mortgages... one is my education.

[MrMarquis]

I brought the Heelys with me to Dallas this weekend B-)

What railroad do you work for?

I've been thinking about buying some Heelys, I just don't really wear anything but cowboy boots...

I've been with Norfolk Southern for almost three years now.

[NitroNic]

Cool. I’ve been a train enthusiast (to some extent) since I was about 5. At that age I wanted to be an engineer for some reason. I never ended up going that route or anything railroad related… but I still like them.

Are you a conductor? Engineer?
None of the above?

[MrMarquis]

Cool. I’ve been a train enthusiast (to some extent) since I was about 5. At that age I wanted to be an engineer for some reason. I never ended up going that route or anything railroad related… but I still like them.

Are you a conductor? Engineer?
None of the above?

Hired on as a conductor. With NS, it's a mandatory promotion to engineer whenever seniority dictates. I've got about 15 people ahead of me before I go to engineer school. They only send so many a year, so it'll be anywhere from 3-5 years before I get my chance.